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Quass
- - A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians. Called also kvass.
Quats
- noun - the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant;
Quays
- noun - wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline
Qubit
- - A measure of information, being the information that can be stored in one object that can take a quantum state of 0 or 1. It differs from the classical bit of information theory in that quantum states may assume many intermediate states that are superpositions of the individual discrete states; the quantum states of multiple quantum systems may also be correlated by a phenomenon called entanglement, increasing the complexity of the information storage and retrieval process. See 4th bit, n.
Quean
- - A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
Queck
- - A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.
Queen
- noun - (chess) the most powerful piece
- a competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- become a queen; "her pawn queened"
- female cat
- offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king